Flying Colours. By It. H. M. S. Saundby. (Aeroplane Co.
Ms. net.)—Captain Saundby, while serving as an airman on the Somme front, used to draw from memory what he had seen in the air, and his drawings, aa General Ashmore says in a Preface, were used for official purposes. This is a sufficient testimonial to the accuracy of the score or so of coloured sketches contained in the book. To the majority of us, who have not had the opportunity of flying, they will be profoundly interesting ; neither the pen nor the camera can reproduce the sensation of Bight so vividly as in these sketehes,which show the friendly and hostile machines and the "Archie' shell-bursts, with the ground, in winter or in summer, looking strangely remote and unreal Two of the drawings represent the Zeppelin ' L48 ' just before she was set on fire over East Anglia and while she was falling in flames. The artist says that in the forward gondola ho found butter not melted by the heat ; two of the crew survived the fall.
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